Can anyone advise on a WORD.DOC problem?

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SouthUKMan wrote: »

Hi. Although many versions of MS Office / Word have been released over the years, most users only use a very small number of basic features. In my experience (until recently, I taught MS Office and ICT to adults for five years) there are very few compatibility issues between different versions of Word when it comes to using basic features likes tables, and inserting pictures, etc. One of the common faults with documents not displaying 100% as intended on another PC results from incompatible fonts. For example, the latest version of Office includes some fonts that aren't available in older versions of Office. So, the software substitutes the font for a similar one. However, similar is not the same. I've seen this cause problems time and time again...particularly when people want to make a document fit exactly to one or two pages, but then find it nudges over by a line or two when displayed on a different PC. As one of the other posters said, try and ensure you use a very standard font such as Arial or Times Roman...both of which are clear, professional and more importantly have been available in Office from the year dot!

MS Word does offer you in settings the choice of embedding used fonts in the saved file. It increases the file size considerably but does allow the recipient to see the document as you intended it to be seen.